Boys and girls all over the world know the name of Richard Halliburton. They have heard grown-ups talk about The Royal Road to Romance, The Glorious Adventure, New Worlds to Conquer, the Flying Carpet and Seven League Boots. These books have broken records in the field of travel and adventure. They are best-sellers year in and year out.

Now Mr. Halliburton has written a book just for his younger friends (but just try to keep father and mother or uncle and aunt away from it!) and in it he has kept a promise he made to himself when he studied geography in school. In those days his eager wish was to travel, to see the places he had read about. He swore that when he became a man he would see that his sons not only studied their geography but lived it too. Now he has been to the four corners of the world and beheld the wonders of nature and man. But he is a bachelor, and has no sons of his own. So he has adopted all boys and girls and here he takes them with him on a personally conducted tour to live geography with him—the most thrilling geography anyone could imagine.

This book represents the cream of his adventures. Beginning with the wonders of our own continent we travel and adventure with him to South America and to Europe.

Have you seen the two largest bridges in the world? Do you know that they are both located in San Francisco—one crossing the Golden Gate and the other spanning the bay from the harbor to Oakland? Then there are majestic Yosemite and magnificent Niagara. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado and Boulder Dam have stories as exciting as the wonders of any other land. Fort Jefferson in the Gulf of Mexico just west of the Florida Keys is a marvel in a class of its own.

Of course New York City with its skyscrapers and our beautiful capital of Washington are not overlooked. Richard Halliburton, who has seen the whole world, does not feel that the grass is any greener in the other fellow's yard. He is first and foremost an American

From these more familiar points he carries his readers to Mexico, to climb the mighty peak of Popocatepetl, to dive into the Sacred Well of the Mayas at Chichen Itza, to explore the black King Christophe's Castle in Haiti, to swim the Panama Canal, to discover Machu Picchu, sacred city of the Incas, hidden high on a cliff of the Andes. Iguazu Falls in South America is enthralling. Rio de Janeiro is revealed in all its beauty. Then to Europe; Gibraltar, Carcassonne, Mount St. Michael, the Cathedral of Reims, the Matterhorn, St. Bernard and its famous dogs, St. Peter's in Rome, Pompeii, the Blue Grotto at Capri, the Parthenon at Athens, Mount Athos, Moscow, Santa Sophia follow in turn.

No dramatic incident, no fascinating legend relating to his marvels has been omitted. Richard Halliburton has spared himself no trouble, no expense to make this book complete and beautiful. The illustrations are many and inspiring. Out of his first hand knowledge of the notable scenes and works of our world, he has chosen those that have most appealed to his own imagination, and with his storytelling gift, simple, direct, enthusiastic, he makes them live to the imagination of all boys and girls. For he has the heart of a boy and he speaks to the heart of youth.

From the dust jacket